Loves Music, Loves To Dance (2001)

Very well executed

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

I was honestly surprised someone said Loves Music Loves to Dance was one of Clarke's weaker novels. I thought it was one of her best. The who done it cliffhanger was executed to perfection, there are plenty enough curveballs thrown to keep you guessing. The characters are much more believable and compelling.However, this movie was far inferior. Key characters who made the plot much more interesting were left out, most notably a couple of men who could have easily been the killer themselves, along with the man who it actually turns out to be. Its not nearly as obvious who the killer is in the book. Even many of the characters who were included were changed from the novel, sometimes in unappealing ways. Even the villain himself is far more compelling and far more dangerous in the novel.I won't go into all the differences between the novel and the movie, there is no room or time. But don't let this third rate film discourage you from reading the book if you haven't. Its much better. Pass the film up.All of Clarke's books with the possible exception of While My Pretty One Sleeps were done poorly on the screen. Its ashame because I feel all of them could have been good box office films in competent hands, including Loves Music Loves To Dance. I would like to see them redone someday by more competent directors and screenwriters. Doubt it though.

LOVES MUSIC LOVES TO DANCE is a good example not to make a murder mystery . From the outset we're , if not shown who the murderer is , then who it probably isn't . This means when we build up to a scene featuring a man like the dodgy handyman in the flat then the audience are fairly sure it's not him meaning the movie loses any suspense or tension This fundamental clumsy genre storytelling clearly manifests itself with the first murder . The victim Anne Sheridan is at a nighttime garden party where she meets the murderer . It's clear from the dialogue they both know each other well . " Are you all right " asks an out of view party goer . Anne replies yes then continues talking to the murderer who then goes on to to strangle her . This leads to all sorts of problems involving plausibility . Didn't the party goer see the murderer ? Why didn't Annne scream since the party is only a few yards away and since the murderer is an associate of Anne wouldn't he be questioned ? Even more unbelievable is that the audience know that the murderer has left his fingerprints at the scene . When you're watching a film and you're more knowledgeable about police procedures than the cops in the story you're know you're watching rubbish Patsy Kensit must have a really poor agent . She tried to swap a rather mediocre music career for a mediocre acting one but found herself starring in nonsense like BAD KARMA and this . That said LOVES MUSIC , LOVES TO DANCE is fairly amusing even if that wasn't the producers intention . The lifestyle of a murderer who is in to ballroom dancing with corpses isn't something you see everyday and does lead to laugh out loud moments

Missed reading this Mary Higgins Clark book and decided to view the TV film and was very disappointed with the entire film from beginning to end. Patsy Kensit,(Darcy Scott) gave a great performance in trying to locate her very close friend who all of a sudden went missing. However, this close friend was doing an assignment for Darcy's TV program which involved going out with guys she connected with on the Internet. You see the apparent murderer dancing around his apartment with a gal who is limp in his arms and having a mixed pair of shoes on her feet. This was a very poorly produced film and you will almost know immediately who the killer is going to turn out to be. I am sure reading the book would have been a better choice.

I have read most of Mary Higgins Clark's books and can't help but be interested in seeing how they are adapted to television. Loves Music, Loves To Dance was one of her weaker novels, and it results in a TV movie that is amongst one of the worst I have seen.The plot involves the murder of Darcy's best friend while doing a report on on-line dating. In order to solve the mystery, Darcy decides to also date each one of her friend's on-line pals to see which one of them might have something to do with the death. Sounds safe, huh? Darcy must be one of the most incompetent, air-headed heroines to ever grace a made-for-TV mystery. Some of her behaviours during the film's climax are so empty-headed and irrational your mouth will likely hang open in disbelief. And the method by which the killer's identity is discovered is also hard to fathom. A serial killer who has gotten away with murder for seven years would slip up like that? Well, obviously, because it's the only way our clueless heroine could discover the truth.Production values are also low, resulting in a movie that looks like it was made sometime in the mid 1980s. But as bad as this movie was, I somehow get the feeling I'll be watching further made-for-TV Mary Higgins Clark mysteries.